"The only way to keep the community safe from you is to keep you locked up.”
Four months ago, or thereabouts, the very small surf world was exposed to the ugliest surf-adjacent story of the year. World Surf League surfer and popular Sunshine Coast surf coach Connor Lyons, 26, had been charged with the indecent treatment of children spanning a fourteen month period. The tales were disturbing and yet police granted him bail on the strict conditions that he have no contact with children under the age of sixteen, no attending venues frequented by children and no coaching children under seventeen.
Well, the current number 48 on the World Qualifying Series used the free time to sprint to his mother’s house and furiously delete a trove of child exploitation material from a device. He admitted his actions to police and shared that he also looked at child pornography online and had been engaging in forbidden contact since 2018. He was subsequently locked back up over the pleas of his lawyers, who claimed he needed help.
Magistrate Rodney Madsen, however, disagreed, telling Lyons, “there’s absolutely no way you’re getting bail. There’s probably nothing any magistrate could do to make you less of a risk to kids.The only way to keep the community safe from you is to keep you locked up.”
The total charges against him ballooning to 29, the most serious carrying a 20 year prison stint.
Hours ago, the case was quickly settled as Lyons appeared via audio-visual link from custody, dismissed his lawyers and plead guilty. He will return to court this Thursday for a committal hearing wherein the judge will decide his fate.
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so much great press for WSL lately, in and out of the water…
Surprised no one mentioned anything of Sarge the photographer. Back in the day he was known to do some bad stuff. Never convicted.
You read this?
https://stabmag.com/style/s…
Yes, I read it this morning, actually. As a grommet, I was warned when I did some surf photograph trips with Sarge to be aware that he was a bit weird and could do this stuff. All of us were very aware of how much of a creep he was but back then he also could help get sponsorships.
How many years is he looking at??
Lyons has a very Clintonesque quality.
strange times we live in where a guy gets 20 years in the clink for sex with children but doctors can cut off children’s genitalia and they’re praised, both being life damaging and completely disgusting.
wow I would have said the Lyon would fit the MAGA brief……Epstein/ felon for sexual abuse/ Tates/Gaetz etc…seems to be a pattern!
other than Epstein, you have proof that they are guilty of the allegations…..or do they just fit your bias?
no my so called bias is based on fact, ol orange was convicted by a court in the USA for sexual abuse, tates are guilty of misogyny to the point women are slaves…..Gaetz well …you know he solicited prostitutes /one under age while snorting coke….. senator Justin Eichorn introduced a bill to label “Trump derangement syndrome” as a mental illness….but then he was busted by an undercover FBI agent soliciting a minor for sex…….so who has the all things trump bias???
E-V-I-D-E-N-C-E
zero evidence that President Trump committed sexual assault
zero evidence that Gaetz committed sexual assault/abuse
zero evidence that Tate committed sexual assault/abuse
If you actually have solid evidence you should provide that to the U.S. Justice Department immediately.
if you don’t have evidence to support your accusations, and you’re just making allegations without evidence, you should provide that info to Adam Schiff.
haha he’s a felon..sexual abuse…………..the Republican got rid of gaetz because their ow investigations showed a very disturbed man…..tate well that’s a no brainer…….do you want to read all the proof?
yes. send all the proof.
I was just watching a maga tranny utuber say that when they rip all the tissue off your arm and make a useless dick for them the sucess rate is % 50, ,first opertation,,on average they take 3 to 6 more surgeries and risk organ malfunction, sepsis ,infection,100s of thousands of dollars it costs that they cant even piss away. And if it ends up ok its useless and they cant cum or get hard.
Oh to spend a day in your algorithm
Yeah except one if those things actually happened and the other one is only happening in your head.
very cryptic.
please send a decoder ring.
All surf instructors should be investigated
Sex columnist Dan Savage coined the phrase “Gold Star Pedophile”: has the urges (usually because cross-wired white matter); scrupulously avoids disinhibiting contexts and never acts. In a weird way these (nearly 100%) guys are admirable for clearly understanding their demons and always choosing to keep them in check.
Lyons, on the other hand, chose to act on his urges, repeatedly. He deserves every second he’s locked up.
I bet Cole Housmand is the next to be locked up. And not only for his hairstyle.
And his cute little diamond earing?
At least that’s him managing to show off his feminine rather than misogynist side.
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy”
-MLK
Cole is definitely the type to still be going to high school parties and hitting on the freshman girls. https://media1.giphy.com/me…
not this hat. was another one that the Dodger brass photo-shopped…“I feel disrespected that my hat got photoshopped,” Hernandez wrote in a comment on the post, noting that his hat had been edited.
It’s no wonder the Dodgers edited the hat. The hat’s logo said “b-tthole whisperer” and had an image of a skeleton nose-deep in a curvy backside.
Was it Caroline or Tyler? less as the story develops…Lyon eyes?
Texas Rangers must have thoroughly thought this through.
Tetas! Tetas! Tetas!
does it have something to do with their IQ?
I figure it was some genius in the MLB executive office.
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Send him to the El Salvador prison. At least something good would then come from all of that.
Why don’t YOU go down to that prison in El Salvador and protest, placard signs with goofy colored letters and all, since, shit man, you’re obviously super passionate about your stance against the very existence of that prison, though it wasn’t built to clean up the U.S., it was built to clean up El Salvador. Get after it you believer you, fight for your cause, and go all in, or least be honest with yourself and admit it’s working.
I’m too busy cleaning up MAGA shit here in the USA, Otto. By the way, how much you think those people and the people on this side are profiting by breaking the Constitution?
Do tell your efforts cleaning.
How does the President exercising Article II powers vested in the Executive Branch under the U.S. Constitution break the U.S
Constitution?
Well, I’m struggling now b/c the cost of cleaning supplies are all going up. It’s weird, for the last 4 years all you MAGA types were saying everything was too expensive and Joe had to go. Now Trump gets in and makes it more expensive, and its manly to suck it up and pay more. I’m so confused. I have a question for you, though–did it hurt when you had the Constitution tattoed next to the Blue Lives Matter Flag on your back?
You don’t like the Constitution? That’s a real shame to hear an American say that ( or type it).
You should BBQ a ribeye. Try some wild game meat like elk. You need to do more man stuff.
It’s overrated as Rs and Trump shit on it all the time. So, clearly not worth the ink written on it. I pick my nose and flick the boogers at passing US made trucks and their ammosexual stickers. I live dangerously, Otto.
Dangerously like the bugs you killed to grow all those vegetables you eat.
Microlivestock!
Can’t wait to listen to you dickheads tell everyone how it’s ok if he runs again in three years thus wiping all our asses with the constitution you love so dearly
He won’t run again. Maybe JD Vance runs and Trump is VP. Then JD resigns and Trump ascends to POTUS. You scared?
Well that’s also unconstitutional but no I’m not scared. Plenty of nice countries with better waves to leave to if this one shits it’s pants
You already gave up. Just leave. And no, that wouldn’t be unconstitutional
Real Noose
Top 3 most slappable faces in surfing? (I’d think Goggans and Houshit in that same top 3).
I don’t think the WSL had this behavior in mind as part of its community outreach.